If I needed one (raced) I would be a buyer at that price. But my goal is 2:30 lap (need to drop 10 min) at FC50 maybe that would help. I think it might be impossible for me to get faster though, some people just suck....lol.

Great for the consumer. I've always said that power meters where priced based on the market ( users willingness to pay ) more so than based on a cost based model. It looks like it is starting to move more to cost based. That has some and good and bad aspect to it. Products become less expensive, but they are also cheaper. Feature set adapation and innovation start to slow down. The winners are usually the companies with strong manufacturing more than strong R&D. Hey but capitalism seems to work for getting more stuff into people's hands. Yes I have a pwr meter. SRM bought on Ebay.

I see absolutely no good reason to measure my power. It's little enough. What good does knowing exactly how little do me?

With a power meter, the power in my body goes up a few percent and the power in my head takes a huge hit. No thanks. Besides, I keep my bikes analog and free of outside power sources. (Except for lights and one bike with a cyclometer for the trainer, something I only use sick or injured.)

Ben – That's what the Amish say about electricity and telephones. Nothing wrong with that mentality, I (and some others) just happen to find that bit of useless information interesting; it’s a toy really and enables me to see how fast I am fading as years go by. :0)

The let their dealers know only about 3 days after the told the public, which was awesome. Guys who bought at the old price calling up pissed, "sorry, sir, I have no idea what you are talking about." Stay classy, San Diego.

Good products, though, and they had to be getting sort of slaughtered. We used to sell A TON of them, lately a lot less. Maybe more now.

If you're actually training, there's no better tool to help you improve and be efficient with your time. If you're just riding, just ride.

I use an HRM for HR and time and that's it. If there would have been watt-o-meters when I was younger I probably would have found a way to own one. Speed and distance have never meant anything to me. Common exchange: "How far did you ride?" " Three hours, HR av. 162".

i just purchased a power meter, mostly 'cause it was cheap. i'm looking to eek out that 1% improvement that will mean victory over my main rival in the local Master 40+ cyclocross race series (yes, BFD. but it's a big deal to me). got a look at the guy last week and damn if he hasn't lost 10lbs from last year. dang. running scared now.

It is not a bad analogy, but looked at from the wrong side. The purpose of a power meter is not to just tell you what watts you are doing (how broke you are). It is to give you the information you need to get better (or, in the case of a CPA, save more cash and get less broke).

What both people need are the tools to get them going in the right direction. The current raw numbers are immaterial.

i particularly enjoy the subtext of whenever somebody slashes a huge chunk off the price of their product. basically an admission that they've been bending you over all this time, and you're supposed to be grateful at their sudden magnanimity.

Just because a company drops their prices doesn't mean they have been gouging anyone.

The market will determine if people are getting "bent over." PT has been selling a quality product for years at a price that hundreds of tho undos of people were willing to pay. By the vast majority of reports, users enjoy and benefit from their PTs. How exactly is that "bending people over"?

A cost based product strategy is simplistic, at best. What a company makes on a product should be immaterial. They offer a product for a price. If consumers think it is a reasonable price for the goods, they will buy it.

Why should a company sell a product for less when it doesn't have to? Just to be "nice"?

I'd also add that this drop may be as a result of paying off tooling for the new G3 designs, improved production efficiencies and other changes in overhead structure. It is conceivable (albeit unlikely) that Saris is making MORE on a hub now because of these factors.

It would seem that this move is largely driven by Stages and other new players in the market place. Competition is a good thing and usually drives down prices.....but it can also rob a category of profit, long term. That is not necessarily a good thing.

Last point - anyone paying full retails for a PT is not doing their homework. There are always deals on hubs and complete wheels out there.